Soft CLIL and English Language Teaching: Understanding Japanese Policy, Practice and Implications

.Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a transformative and powerful approach to language education and has had a significant impact on educational pedagogy in recent years. Despite burgeoning literature on the efficacy and implementation of CLIL, there remains a gap between CLIL and English Language Teaching (ELT). Many practitioners wonder how they can ‘do CLIL’ if their main classes are focused on English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This volume addresses these concerns by examining the experiences of various CLIL practitioners in the EFL context of Japan. Chapters outline the CLIL methodology, the differences in ‘hard CLIL’ (subject led) and ‘soft CLIL’ (language-oriented) before focusing on the EFL interpretations of soft-CLIL. Although the distinction of hard CLIL and soft CLIL has been mentioned in several publications, this is the first book-length exploration of this issue, featuring chapters examining expectations, challenges, material support, implementation, and even motivation in CLIL classrooms. All of this culminates in a review of the potential and future of CLIL in EFL contexts, paving the way for more widespread and well informed implementation of CLIL all over the world.Additional ISBNs9780429032332, 9780367618315, 9780429629839, 9780429626555Soft CLIL and English Language Teaching: Understanding Japanese Policy, Practice and Implications 1st Edition is written by Makoto Ikeda; Shinichi Izumi; Yoshinori Watanabe; Richard Pinner; Matthew Davis and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Soft CLIL and English Language Teaching are 9780429628191, 0429628196 and the print ISBNs are 9780367145637, 0367145634. Additional ISBNs include 9780429032332, 9780367618315, 9780429629839, 9780429626555.